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were violated by the requirement that those circulating the petitions also be eligible or registered voters of Virginia.
My response was tongue in cheek as none of the people I listed are elegible or registered voters of Virginia.
Me personally, I wish Newt and Perry WERE on the ballot, but they didn't meet the requirement.
The requirements are part of the establishments attempt to control the election, pure and simple. It is designed to help their chosen candidate, and if you keep defending this stupid scam, people might begin to think you are a Romneyite.
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You favor that the signatures on the petitions are Democrats, and at the same time you are against allowing real Republicans on the primary ballot.
Actually, they did meet the requirement. The requirement is to submit 10,000 or more names of registered Virginia voters, with 400(?) coming from each district.
Perry and Newt both submitted more than 10,000.
That the VAGOP supposedly checked the names is not a requirement. It is for local and state elections, but not for national elections. Furthermore, the VAGOP did not apply that standard to all candidates, selectively choosing to not do so for Romney and Paul.
That is an unequal application of law and is contrary to equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
As precedence has already been set in past elections (ie: the non-checking of submitted names), then that is the standard they must uphold for all, not for some (Romney and Paul).
It’s pretty cut and dry here. The VAGOP disregarded it’s own rules and precedents, following them for Romney and Paul... but ignoring them for the rest.